Brief reviews of movies you saw recently

[CrustClock]

[imdb]Idiocracy[/imdb]

Highly recommended! An incredibly watchable movie; Wilson is very funny and likable, the plot moves at a terrific pace and the jokes are mostly successful (although the ones that don't seem to drag on forever). There really is very little to dislike about it; it doesn't take itself seriously in the slightest and the jokes are wonderfully dumb. Highly recommended for fans of Mike Judge.

[Poltergeist]

"Do you know what sells a sitcom?"

"The word 'butt?'""

Pinky and the brain?

Also, waiting for someone to give the movie an Epic Failure/10.

[Randy Pearson]

Did you not contribute to this idiocy?  Why did you even see it in the first place?  Unless you pirated it, which is very very wrong.

I am writing on behalf of my friend who wrote this review. It was not in any way his choice to see the film. His mother saw the trailers and it seems she was utterly convinced it was worth the time and money. I told him his mom was a tool for even being slightly convinced by the commercials to see the film.

This strikes me as tremendously unlikely.

I too found this unlikely... and my friend does have a past of misenterpreting material as stolen and if so from where it was stolen. He is a very hard person to please and often does compare similar jokes and then arrives at the conclusion they were stolen. He is very picky about his humor which makes it awefully hard as the writing half of our flash production team.

However he has convinced me not to see the film and to possibly avoid it (even if it means killing myself).

Pursuit of Happyness
8/10

I found this film incredibily enjoyable and worthwhile. I think with all of the films that portray the dark side of America its nice to see something that really affirms your faith and confidence in the whole "american dream" idea. It is abbly played by all the actors. I must say my favorite actor was Will Smith's son, who completely stole the picture from his father who just seems to try too hard with this one at times.

[Jimmy McNulty]

Anybody seen inland empire?

[UnknownClock]

12 Angry Men - 10/10

Incredible film, I'm not too much into the fifties but this was remarkable. It's focus is on a jury who decide the life on a man accused of killing his father and the performances are stunning. It also has quite unique writing, it many points in the film focusing on an unimportant subjects to feel real.

[DigitalLemonClock]

Anybody seen inland empire?

I haven't, but if you're looking for common opinion it seems that it's another one of his heavily symbolic pieces and has some tie-ins with his Rabbits series, combine that with what has been said a very unique use of digital camera and you get people walking out.

I however really am excited for it.

Salo
The 120 Days of Sodom

The movie takes place in fascist-era Italy and depicts 4 powerful officials who capture a group of Italian youths to degrade and brutalize them in numerous of unimaginable ways.

When the four parts that a movie are split up in are called "Antechamber of Hell", "Circle of Obsessions", "Circle of Shit" and "Circle of Blood" you know you're in for a good ride.

I won't spoil too much of this film, since it really is a must-see.

7.5/10

[Topcatyo]

I've seen that [12 Angry Men] and I agree, its a great movie.

Me too, although I found the ending a bit hilarious.
"What's your name?"
"[guy says his name]."
"Oh.
...
Bye."

Also, the "I don't EEEEEEEEEEEEEH think he's guilty" threw that scene off.

[DWARFINATORclock]

Smokin' Aces.

6.5/10

It was good but should have been better.

[CrustClock]

[imdb]doa: Dead or Alive[/imdb]

Straight up: this is an awful, awful movie. The plot sounds like something from 'Totally Spies', the acting is a joke and is probably on par with 'Street Fighter' as the worst videogame movie licence ever.

The gist of the story is that the best fighters in the world are invited to the d.o.a tournament where they must fight each other until one of them is crowned the d.o.a champion and wins the mindblowing sum of $10m bux. Needless to say there's some shady conspiracy involving some shady shades, but it's so fantastically ridiculous that I won't ruin the bemusement for you.

You might think that it's ok for a movie based on the doa games to have a shitty plot as long as the fight scenes are kickass. But they're not. They're repetitive, boring, full of stolen ideas (house of flying dagger's blatantly ripped off in the jungle fight scene) and just plain uninspired.

You'd think that with a movie with about 500 producers and executive producers, one of them would have the guts to nip this in the bud and save everyone involved the embarassment. Trash.

0/10

[Arctic]

Children of Men 8/10

[LeekClock]

Boogie Nights

Required viewing

[Kaijuclock]

the departed


actually kicked ass

[Kombucha]

I have no idea what year it is.
Rocky Horror Picture Show: 10/10
Wins for fucked-upness.

Team America World Police: 9/10
Funny.

[Jimmy McNulty]

Transformers The Movie: 8/10

In a word: Awesome. As a diehard fan of the decepticons I got what I asked for. Soundwave kicked some ass, Megatron kicked some ass (I contend that he won against prime), Galvatron kicked some ass, and Unicron (played by Orson Welles) kicked a shitload of ass. However, this movie loses points for Bumblebee's failure to die, that annoying little shit Daniel, and the Decepticons loosing in the end. Other than that, a great peice of animation.

[Joey 56465468]

Ghost Rider

If you are a fan of Nicholas Cage, then it is a must see.  If you do not like Nicholas cage then you will most likely hate this movie.  There is comedey and its extreamly random, but still kind of funny.  The special effects are top notch, up there with the Spiderman movies.  But the acting is more in the Punisher category.  Bottom line, this movie is eye candy, not ear candy.  Also, the voice of Ghost Rider is really bad.

[MasterClock]

Epic Movie

The funny moments were extremely funny.  Otherwise the movie sort of sucked, you could tell it was low budget.  If I saw more than two of the movies they made fun of it'd probably be a lot funnier.

6/10

[Losperman]

Saw III - 7/10

I found myself thinking "I've seen this before" more than once during this movie, which sucked. But the gore was pretty good, and the acting was all right. The plot really redeemed itself at the end, though. Good stuff.

[LeekClock]

[IMDB]The Idiots[/IMDB] - Lars Von Trier

It's about a group of people who basically do what the Clock Crew does - they act weird in public, in order to find their "inner idiots".  To see how far they can go. To have fun. To let go, and escape social norms. To reach an enlightened state.

The nature of the film and its aesthetic are also very Clock Crew. It is purposefully no-frills. It is following the "vow of chastity", which is a set of rules layed out by Lars Von Trier, for his filmmakers' movement called Dogme 95. This movement, as it happens, also has a lot of parallels with the Clock Crew.

So basically, not only is it a very interesting, provocative and sometimes amusing film in it's own right, it is of particular interest to us Clocks. I highly recommend that everyone checks it out.

[UnknownClock]

Hot Fuzz - 6/10

Dissappointing, I thought it would be a classic like Shaun of the Dead, but it was just lacking in humour, some of it was entertaining and the fight sequences were cool, but it just lost it's spark.

[ChocolateCoffin]

Hot Fuzz - 6/10

Dissappointing, I thought it would be a classic like Shaun of the Dead, but it was just lacking in humour, some of it was entertaining and the fight sequences were cool, but it just lost it's spark.

There's humour everywhere in it, their expressions, actions, not just dialogue, go watch it again, and watch it harder!